A Fringe of Leaves

Authors:

White, Patrick

First Published:

1976

Units teaching this text:

2012: 1
2011: 1
2010: 1
2009: 1
2008: 1
2007: 1
2006: 1

Categories:

Topics: Aboriginal-White relations, Colonial life, Convict assignment, Convicts, Fraser Island, Queensland, Infidelity, Love, Marriage, Nature, Passenger ships, Passion, Sea travel, Self discovery, Shipwrecks & shipping accidents, Unified self, Van Diemen's Land (1803-1856), Tasmania, Women

Text Setting: Ca.1830 - 1840, Cornwall, England, New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania

Novel

Units:

University of Melbourne

Wild Writing: The Australian Imaginary 2010 [ENGL20009 (106-046)]

University of Queensland

Twentieth-Century Australian Literature 2006 [ENGL2100]

Twentieth-Century Australian Literature 2007 [ENGL2100]

Twentieth-Century Australian Literature 2008 [ENGL2100]

University of Southern Queensland

The Australian Novel 1975-2010 2011 [ENL3005]

The Australian Novel 1975-2010 2012 [ENL3005]

University of Technology, Sydney

Representing Aboriginal People, History and Place 2009 [85212]

Resources:

Brady, Veronica. 'A Fringe of Leaves: Civilization by the Skin of Our Own Teeth'.
Critical article from The AustLit Anthology of Criticism
Haskell, Dennis. '"A Lady Only by Adoption": Civilization in A Fringe of Leaves'.
Critical article from The AustLit Anthology of Criticism
Hergenhan, Laurie. 'The City or the Desert: Patrick White's A Fringe of Leaves'.
Critical article from The AustLit Anthology of Criticism

See AustLit work record for this text